Informix

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Brand Details

Type: Product

Description: Informix is a high-performance, scalable, and embeddable database management system (DBMS) capable of handling various data types, including SQL, NoSQL, JSON, time-series, and spatial data. It is used across various sectors, including retail, finance, energy, utilities, manufacturing, and transportation, often for high-transaction online transaction processing (OLTP) applications and increasingly for data warehousing. It offers different editions with varying capabilities and is available as a managed service on IBM Cloud, standalone software, and within IBM Cloud Pak for Data. Informix is known for its ability to handle high-concurrency and high-throughput environments. Originally developed by Informix Corporation, it was acquired by IBM in 2001. While IBM continues to market and sell it, active development and support have been delegated to HCL Technologies since 2017.

Website: https://www.ibm.com/products/informix

Mention Analytics

Total Mentions: 7

Subreddit Mentions:

Positive Mentions: 5

Negative Mentions: 2

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PositiveSoftware Recommendation

💬 45 comments

⬆︎ 13 upvotes

Informix is mentioned as a data source that may impact the ingestion mechanism.

Found in /r/SQL/
NegativeSoftware Recommendation

💬 4 comments

⬆︎ 2 upvotes

It is mentioned in a sarcastic comment.

Found in /r/Database/
NegativeBusiness Advice

💬 5 comments

⬆︎ 1 upvotes

Commenters express concerns about scalability and maintenance, and recommend against using Informix.

Found in /r/Database/

Feb 29, 2024

What was it like working with SQL in decades past (90s backwards)?

PositiveGeneral Discussion

💬 109 comments

⬆︎ 123 upvotes

Informix was mentioned as a system used in 1987, during the user's work experience.

Found in /r/SQL/

Apr 10, 2023

Is it better to learn MySQL or PostgreSQL?

PositiveSoftware Recommendation

💬 35 comments

⬆︎ 46 upvotes

Mentioned as a database option; one user uses it and finds it easy to transition from PostgreSQL.

Found in /r/SQL/

Jun 21, 2019

PSA: 'serial' has been soft-deprecated since PG 10. Long live IDENTITY columns.

PositiveGeneral Discussion

💬 5 comments

⬆︎ 30 upvotes

Informix is mentioned positively as a database system that has easy-peasy porting of apps to PostgreSQL. The user suggests that Informix has useful features.

Found in /r/PostgreSQL/

Aug 8, 2014

RDBMS Genealogy

PositiveGeneral Discussion

💬 8 comments

⬆︎ 39 upvotes

Mentioned as one of the key players in the genealogy of relational database management systems.

Found in /r/Database/

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